Re: Trying to install on 2008 r2 server

2024-02-09 Thread Peter A. Castro via Cygwin
low rds access. > > I read through the stuff on the cygwin page and it seems to say that > > setup-x86_64.exe -X --allow-unsupported-windows --site > http://ctm.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/pub/cygwin/circa/64bit/2024/01/30/23121 You seem to be missing a "5" on the en

Re: Most git executables are hard links to git.exe?

2023-07-29 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
executables, mostly in /usr/libexec/git-core, that all appear to be *hard* links to /bin/git, in both Cygwin and Windows. The Windows fsutil command shows they're all hard linked: [snip] I'm curious to know if there's a specific reason for this implementation tha

Re: Map home dir drive (H:) to /home/myuser/ ?

2023-07-29 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
On 2023/07/28 21:24, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: Good morning! Does Cygwin have a way to map a (NFS) home dir drive (H:) to /home/myuser/, without resorting to POSIX-style softlinks ([1]) ? Example: 1. Home dir mounted on drive H: via NFS 2. How do I now map H: to /home/myuser/ ? For

Re: Linking a native msvc dll library to CYGWIN g++ compiler

2023-07-16 Thread Mümin A . via Cygwin
Hi, reminder.. Mümin A. , 11 Tem 2023 Sal, 09:47 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > > Hi, > > I'm facing a problem while linking my native dll library into the g++ > compiler. > > There is a name mangling problem when calling a msvc function from g++ > compiler therefore li

linking multiple function from .lib to CYGWIN

2023-07-14 Thread Mümin A . via Cygwin
Hi, I can only link one function at a time in a *msvc *built library but when I use multiple functions in the CYGWIN compiler, I got that error message. int main() { helloWorld2(); return 0; } That is compiled and linked successfully. int main() { helloWorld2(); helloWorld3(); return 0

Linking a native msvc dll library to CYGWIN g++ compiler

2023-07-10 Thread Mümin A . via Cygwin
Hi, I'm facing a problem while linking my native dll library into the g++ compiler. There is a name mangling problem when calling a msvc function from g++ compiler therefore linker gives an error undefined reference. Is there any method to directly link and call a function from nativ

Re: [EXTERNAL] Memory Barriers at pthread using CYGWIN

2023-06-08 Thread Mümin A . via Cygwin
IH/NLM/NCBI) [C] Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2023 5:37:31 PM To: Mümin A. ; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Memory Barriers at pthread using CYGWIN > result should be > > r1 = 1, r2 = 1 > And what was the result you saw? Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem r

Memory Barriers at pthread using CYGWIN

2023-06-08 Thread Mümin A . via Cygwin
Hi, I wrote a simple test for pthread_barrier_wait. it won't work as expected. result should be r1 = 1, r2 = 1 Thanks, Mümin cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.26) project(test) set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 14) set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON) set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF) add_defini

Re: Can not stat file with utf char U+F020

2023-04-18 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
I'm a bit confused as to what char you are trying to access/use, as U+F020 is in the Private Use area (PUA) Since it's in the PUA, it seems its meaning could differ by application/OS/User, no? I.e. have no set definition I mean you can use it in Cygwin to represent some character n

[SOLVED] Re: mirror corruption, or non-backward compatible library change?

2023-03-21 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
On 2023/03/21 09:13, L A Walsh via Cygwin wrote: Connected to kernel.org as I normally do, but got this: Internal Error: gcrypt library error 1 unsupported pk alg. --- Using most recent version of setup.exe from cygwin.com solved the problem. Sorry for bogon. -- Problem reports

mirror corruption, or non-backward compatible library change?

2023-03-21 Thread L A Walsh via Cygwin
to verify. Possible corrupt mirror? Setup.ini rejected. It looks like I'm getting this popup with each package I have installed. Any idea what might be wrong? Really a corrupt mirror? Or did I miss a gcrypt library update that supports new signatures, but that I can't get because

checking cyg version (was Re: GNU make losing jobserver tokens)

2022-03-22 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/03/21 08:09, Ken Brown wrote: For starters, is your Cygwin installation up to date? Cygwin's internal implementation of pipes was overhauled starting with cygwin-3.3.0. How does one check the version of cygwin? I've updated cygwin files this year, but if I use cygcheck -V, I

re: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files

2022-03-19 Thread L A Walsh
New message in tail: Anyone else seen this type of message lately:? tail -f .*log|wc tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling: Too many open files It doesn't seem to be a big issue, but thought I should mention it... -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems

Re: Removing ^X in paths

2022-02-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/02/02 20:12, Dennis Heimbigner wrote: I am using 64bit. And it has nothing to do misreading characters. The ^X is described in this document: https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html, Wow, I've never seen such a pathname. What's an example of

Re: ls -C broken

2022-02-02 Thread L A Walsh
ut were also changed, requiring usage of 'numfmt' This was all done to benefit script consistency at the expense of users usability. It is expected that users can adapt to the computers. by default, 'ls' will produce different output when it goes to the screen vs. when

Re: Removing ^X in paths

2022-02-02 Thread L A Walsh
7;t insert ^X characters in paths. Perhaps you are thinking of '\' which looks like ¥ (a capital 'Y' with 2 horizontal lines, (Fullwidth Yen Sign U+FFE5)...if that's the case, some 8-bit font displayed that sign instead of a backslash in non-unicode locals. Are you

Re: Renaming (with 'mv') very large files is SLOW

2022-02-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/01/31 13:36, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Could it be that the first 'mv' triggered an anti-virus read of the file since perhaps it detects it as a new/changed file? But if so, would 'mv' (under Task Manager) be showing the 100+ MB/s disk activity? That defini

Re: Cygwin/X display scaling corrupting font display of typed characters;

2022-01-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2022/01/21 10:26, L A Walsh wrote: ... To summarize, I am not sure that the original issue has anything to do with 2nd monitor, nor any changes in the Xorg-sources. In _my_ case it was a matter of how the Xserver was started, and what dpi settings it was started with. If server was started

Re: Cygwin/X with Win[10]-^ display scaling corrupting font display of typed characters - Issue [identified]-????

2022-01-21 Thread L A Walsh
, but I do not have xorg-server-xorg installed *at all*. Mine has nothing to do with moving windows between monitors. I'm seeing truncated windows on my main monitor (2560x1440). My 2nd monitor is 1920x1080. On boot, I start the Xserver by calling ~/bin/Xserver.sh I use a modified

Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-27 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:04:16PM +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi Peter, Greetings, Thomas, > Am 27.10.2021 um 18:46 schrieb Peter A. Castro: > > On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 11:37:26AM +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote: > > > > Greetings, Thomas, > > > > > Am 27.10

Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-27 Thread Peter A. Castro
still supported at least until Oct. 2025. Personally, I think it > > > would not be nice to exclude the supported windows version from > > > cygwin support. > > Well, it's not much effort to support WOW64 if we support 32 bit anyway. > > The problem is that

Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-27 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 10:57:00AM -0400, Michel LaBarre wrote: Greetings, Michel, > > > Would it be possible to create a short "how-to" for installing the most > > > recently "known-to-work-with-Windows-7" version of Cygwin (presuming > that > >

Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-27 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 10:53:58AM +0200, Cygwin List wrote: Greetings, Corinna, > On Oct 26 21:29, Peter A. Castro wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 06:52:02PM -0400, Michel LaBarre wrote: > > > > Greetings, Michel & Corinna, > > > > > Corinn

Re: Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-27 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/10/26 13:55, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: Hi folks, The upcoming version 3.3.0 is the last version officially supporting Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The next major release 3.4.0 will be released in 2022 and will be the last one officially supporting Windows 7, Windo

Re: [HEADSUP] Phasing out old Windows versions and 32 bit support

2021-10-26 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 06:52:02PM -0400, Michel LaBarre wrote: Greetings, Michel & Corinna, > Corinna , thank you for the heads up regarding subsequent updates wrt Window > 7. > > Would it be possible to create a short "how-to" for installing the most > recently

Re: Snapshot of Cygwin from Windows XP era

2021-10-25 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 05:14:12PM +0100, Cygwin List wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there exists a snapshot of the Cygwin repos at a time > when Windows XP was still supported? Try the Cygwin Time Machine which has a continual collection of all Cygwin pac

Re: Prompt wrapping lines problems

2021-10-09 Thread L A Walsh
elp you because it comes from the old version of cygwin and not from the new one containing the bug. $ echo "$TERM" xterm me@me ~ $ stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 22; columns 191; line = 0; ^^^>...That's awfully wide!!! normally you use 80 charcaters wide -- and the termina

Re: Prompt wrapping lines problems

2021-10-08 Thread L A Walsh
Did you try the the solution suggested? I.e. What do you see if you type: echo "$TERM" How did you start your bash prompt? Also might be useful to send the output of: stty -a On 2021/10/06 03:35, jp via Cygwin wrote: Hello,I have the problem described in this pa

Re: Can't ssh to cygwin after switching sign-in to Windows Hello PIN

2021-09-20 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/09/15 12:53, Henry S. Thompson via Cygwin wrote: frankly, it seems like a bug, and if Microsoft succeeds in moving more people to using PINs for login, it will surely begin to bite others... Isn't the idea of using the PIN login to get rid of the use (and the ability) t

windows explorer links in cygwin /bin

2021-09-20 Thread L A Walsh
I have about 99 ".lnk" files in my /bin dir. What are these for? They appear to be explorer links to various things, to list some files w/o the .lnk extension: ( /bin/ls -T 0 -x -w 96 |sed -r 's/\.lnk//g' ) Console2 a2ping a5toa4adhocfilelist amstex

Re: tcl3270 failure in new Cygwin install

2021-09-14 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 06:29:19PM -0400, Cygwin List wrote: Greetings, David, > I just performed a new Cygwin install (32 bit) and chose to install > package tcl3270, version 3.3.15ga9-1. Installation of Cygwin, tcl3270 > prerequisites, and tcl3270 completed successfully, but w

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-08-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/07/15 01:23, Sam Edge via Cygwin wrote: On 15/07/2021 08:02, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/07/07 11:43, Andrey Repin wrote: Sorta, actually the cygtree mounted at 'C:\'. Ugh. Been there twenty years ago. Had a lot of unexpected issues and finally opted out of it.

Re: Symlink issue?

2021-08-23 Thread L A Walsh
the following Cygwin session: >>> $ cd ~ >> I don't know why bash completion suggests something different. My >> guess (and it's only a guess) is that bash completion takes a >> shortcut for performance reasons. --- cd w/completion uses the physical path becau

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-07-15 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/07/07 11:43, Andrey Repin wrote: What is "progd" ? Did you mount some directory into Cygwin tree? Sorta, actually the cygtree mounted at 'C:\'. Ugh. Been there twenty years ago. Had a lot of unexpected issues and finally opted out of it. --- I

Re: objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-07-06 Thread L A Walsh
extended permissions, though, the net result was me getting a 'no access' when I tried to look into the directory with explorer. While I did have access via a local shell, I also have no-access from bash on a remote system (the samba domain controller on linux): > echo

objects created in a dir w/cygwin mangled perms; inherit no-access

2021-07-03 Thread L A Walsh
Trying to track down exact conditions for a simpler testcase for a weird error message in tar and ran across this... in directory 'SI': /progd/Microsoft/../Tools/Sysinternals> ll -ad SI drwxrwxr-x+ 1 0 Jul 3 16:28 SI/ w/umask: umask 0002 I make dir 'newdir': mkd

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-07-03 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/16 10:22, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: 2019/02/07 22:53 DiskView [SI\DiskView.exe] and stems from the use of the --xattrs switch. Hmm. Looks like some of the symlink / attrs content is taking a route that doesn't deal correctly with '\&

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-19 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/16 10:22, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures of the sort: tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or director, Where the item listed (Dbgview, ...) is a windows symlink like: 2019/02/07

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-19 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/16 10:22, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures of the sort: tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or director, Where the item listed (Dbgview, ...) is a windows symlink like: 2019/02/07

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-06-16 Thread L A Walsh
tries and issues an immediate failure: 00:00:00.000: Failure starting the process. The request is not supported (50). That looks suspiciously like MS's latest strike against Win7, telling people it's incompatible with newer SW. At least reinst'ing W7 gave me a chance to catch Adob

Re: bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-15 Thread L A Walsh
'm not sure what you mean. Oops, I forgot to list the command line, but thought that "--xattrs" might be implied from the fact that the error was about retrieving xattrs. Cmdline was using shell script calling a function, "backup_dir" with "ProgramData&qu

Re: Problem or question on Cygwin XWin

2021-06-14 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/14 17:30, Duncan Roe wrote: On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 04:41:42PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: There is a listen parameter on XWin, but the man page doesn't say what format to use for the listen parameter. I want to have it listen for tcp from a local net: 192.168.3.0. I started h

bug in cygwin tar reading unexpected input(s)...

2021-06-14 Thread L A Walsh
Tar'ing up a windows dir (ProgData) had some unexected failures: Several of the sort: tar: Dbgview: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory tar: Desktops: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such file or directory tar: DiskView: Warning: Cannot llistxattrat: No such fi

Problem or question on Cygwin XWin

2021-06-14 Thread L A Walsh
There is a listen parameter on XWin, but the man page doesn't say what format to use for the listen parameter. I want to have it listen for tcp from a local net: 192.168.3.0. I started having problems with my cygwin X receiving network connections via TCP, locally (like 192.16

Re: odd prob for cygwin 'dd' from a character device on network disk

2021-06-14 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/11 18:32, Duncan Roe wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 08:20:30PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/06/09 19:23, Duncan Roe wrote: nfs / nodev? I'm not sure what you mean or are asking. I'm not using nfs...but cygwin. The file 'zero' is in the same d

Re: odd prob for cygwin 'dd' from a character device on network disk

2021-06-10 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/09 19:23, Duncan Roe wrote: nfs / nodev? I'm not sure what you mean or are asking. I'm not using nfs...but cygwin. The file 'zero' is in the same dir as the file 'null'. I usually read 'zero' and write to 'null, though for 1-way testing, I read from file 'zero' on the remo

odd prob for cygwin 'dd' from a character device on network disk

2021-06-09 Thread L A Walsh
I've been using a character device on linux in my home directory named 'zero' that is a copy of the 'zero' device in /dev: crwxrwxrw- 1 1, 5 Jun 15 2015 zero to do read benchmarks using 'dd' (and write benchmarks using a file named 'null' thats

Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
ding TZ info from 2 sources -- like config files and ENV. Honestly I wasn't saying you shouldn't have asked here, just questioning your logic/reasoning. I'm just not very clear on where I'm going in a conversation sometimes, as I take a very round-about path, which if taken, ofte

Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
--- You didn't claim, you asked. Also you asserted that your python didn't work because of cygwin in the mix. I'm not a cygwin developer, but have used it for over 20 years. I spoke up because I am a computer scientist and the way you were describing the problem was a

Re: After cygwin 3.2 update windows terminal input is sometimes broken

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/08 05:41, Tomas Tumelionis wrote: Sorry for the vague description. --- I get accused of being too vague all the time. Glad you narrowed down the problem. Good job! Have fun! -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Do

Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/08 05:28, Mike Kaganski wrote: No, I report a problem that a native program runs incorrectly *under Cygwin*, because Cygwin is indeed part of the picture. --- The problem is in the MS-Win term program. If you report it to them and tell them it only misbehaves when you have

Re: After cygwin 3.2 update windows terminal input is sometimes broken

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
means that if I open the terminal and split pane, I can not enter text into the previous pane forever. Does the cygwin terminal still work? Seems like you are reporting a Windows problem in cygwin. What does cygwin have to do with a windows terminal -- it doesn't use cygwin at all, do

Re: Python for Windows reports wrong local time when run under Cygwin on Europe/Moscow TZ

2021-06-08 Thread L A Walsh
y for the test I used the one from MS Store [1]), I have incorrect local time Why are you reporting a problem in Windows-Python on a cygwin list, especially when the cygwin python runs correctly? Admittedly I'd be more interested to know what happened in perl, but doubt MS wants to try supp

Re: how to "re-enable" perl after 5.32 install; how to reinstall all perl-mods?

2021-06-02 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/06/01 22:47, ASSI wrote: L A Walsh writes: updated cygwin and it reinstalled a new version of perl, but when I try to run any perl progs nothing runs (see below). So I'd like to try to reinstall all the cygwin perl-mods that I have installed. You didn't say how y

Re: how to "re-enable" perl after 5.32 install; how to reinstall all perl-mods?

2021-06-02 Thread L A Walsh
/tmp/setup-x86_64 -fgnqrP \ `grep ^perl- /etc/setup/installed.db | cut -d' ' -f1 | paste -d, -s` Thanks, mostly. It did try to install them, but the solver was/is too smart, it comes up with 2 solutions 1/2 to uninstall 5.32, install 5.30-x and a bunch of other modules, and (

how to "re-enable" perl after 5.32 install; how to reinstall all perl-mods?

2021-06-01 Thread L A Walsh
This is getting really icky... updated cygwin and it reinstalled a new version of perl, but when I try to run any perl progs nothing runs (see below). So I'd like to try to reinstall all the cygwin perl-mods that I have installed. How can I select "all" among the perl mods? and

sshd high cpu load

2021-05-30 Thread A. Doggy via Cygwin
To Cygwin, I tested the current build as of 5/28/21 and the issue still exists. Cpu load gets pegged at 100%. If you are the developer in charge of sshd for cygwin, please fix this problem. Thanks. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwi

Re: sshd high cpu load

2021-05-28 Thread A. Doggy via Cygwin
On 5/28/2021 7:06 PM, A. Doggy wrote: On 5/27/2021 7:51 AM, A. Doggy wrote: On 5/25/2021 8:23 PM, A. Doggy wrote: On 5/20/2021 9:31 PM, A. Doggy wrote: To cygwin. A Little more info: I actually have 1 client that connects regularly to the server. That client uses a program called

Re: sshd high cpu load

2021-05-28 Thread A. Doggy via Cygwin
On 5/27/2021 7:51 AM, A. Doggy wrote: On 5/25/2021 8:23 PM, A. Doggy wrote: On 5/20/2021 9:31 PM, A. Doggy wrote: To cygwin. A Little more info: I actually have 1 client that connects regularly to the server. That client uses a program called goodsync. When I block goodsync from

Re: sshd high cpu load

2021-05-27 Thread A. Doggy via Cygwin
On 5/25/2021 8:23 PM, A. Doggy wrote: On 5/20/2021 9:31 PM, A. Doggy wrote: To cygwin. A Little more info: I actually have 1 client that connects regularly to the server. That client uses a program called goodsync. When I block goodsync from connecting, the problem goes away and I only

Re: sshd high cpu load

2021-05-25 Thread A. Doggy via Cygwin
On 5/20/2021 9:31 PM, A. Doggy wrote: To cygwin. A Little more info: I actually have 1 client that connects regularly to the server. That client uses a program called goodsync. When I block goodsync from connecting, the problem goes away and I only have 1 sshd.exe process running. When I

problem opening/loading an X11 font.

2021-05-21 Thread L A Walsh
If I use 'xlsfonts' to list my X server fonts, one of them fonts I am trying to use is "lucidatypewriter-medium". display xlsfonts and filtering on the family, I get tons: -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-100-100-m-0-iso10646-1 -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-0-0-100-10

Re: sshd high cpu load

2021-05-20 Thread A. Doggy via Cygwin
To cygwin. A Little more info: I actually have 1 client that connects regularly to the server. That client uses a program called goodsync. When I block goodsync from connecting, the problem goes away and I only have 1 sshd.exe process running. When I unblock goodsync, I have multiple

Re: sshd high cpu load

2021-05-20 Thread A. Doggy via Cygwin
Anyone? On 5/19/2021 12:48 AM, A. Doggy wrote: To Cygwin, I am running cygwin openssh as a windows service. I have been doing so for many years with out issue. Recently, I have been running into an issue where it maxes out my cpu on any version newer than 8.4p1-1. The solution is to

sshd high cpu load

2021-05-18 Thread A. Doggy via Cygwin
To Cygwin, I am running cygwin openssh as a windows service. I have been doing so for many years with out issue. Recently, I have been running into an issue where it maxes out my cpu on any version newer than 8.4p1-1. The solution is to downgrade to 8.4p1-1. My server machine is a dell t330

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-11 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/11 07:33, Jon Turney wrote: On 10/04/2021 22:37, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/04/10 12:14, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/04/09 07:41, Jon Turney wrote: I think so, yes. === That's unfortunate. Well, I wasn't sure if it was new or old. At least its not some new prob

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-10 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/09 08:12, Thomas Wolff wrote: Hmm, when I start xterm -bc and click out of xterm (e.g. mintty or Thunderbird), the cursor stops blinking for me. --- That's the key difference "click out of xterm" -- in pointer follows focus, no clicking is used. The active window becomes the one u

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-10 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/10 12:14, L A Walsh wrote: On 2021/04/09 07:41, Jon Turney wrote: I think so, yes. === That's unfortunate. Well, I wasn't sure if it was new or old. At least its not some new problem. Sigh. Thanks for the backstory. [1] https://sourceware.org

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-10 Thread L A Walsh
linking for the active window...oi! See [1] et seq. for a discussion of what I think is the same problem, where the Cygwin X server doesn't notify X windows of a focus loss when the focus moves to a non-X window. Unfortunately, my attempts at fixing this just introduced more problems

Re: X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-08 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/04/07 11:46, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: If I move the windows cursor to another editor window in X11, the blinking cursor moves to the new window, but if I move it to a native window, the blinking doesn't stop. Has this always been this way? Windows never had &

X11 blinking cursor in text window like 'gvim' - only halts if moved-over another X11-win

2021-04-06 Thread L A Walsh
I don't recall this always being this way as I keep running into a problem with my input going into the wrong window. I've noted I seem to be relying on which editor(i.e. gvim) window in X11 has focus by noting that it has a blinking square cursor in the window at the cursor's c

Re: 3270

2021-04-06 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:44:28PM +0200, Cygwin List wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 4:51 AM Peter A. wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 06:51:05PM +0100, Cygwin List wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Do we have any c/s/x3270 maintainer? > > > Do we hav

Re: Perl Unidecode modules - which to use (if not Text::Unidecode)?

2021-04-05 Thread L A Walsh
u don't know his use case and you are misinterpreting his example as random garbage. Those aren't a random foreign encoding -- those are C's G's then E, I O with accent variations that he may want to collapse for purposes of storing in a text storage and retrieval (search) appl

Re: Perl Unidecode modules - which to use (if not Text::Unidecode)?

2021-04-04 Thread L A Walsh
Sorry for not including this in other post, but attached is the output for my cpan -i stage -- there was a bit of it, and like I said, it looked like it might not work, but i it did. I used 'xz' to compress it from 37610 down to 2272 bytes. log.xz Description: application/xz-comp

Re: Perl Unidecode modules - which to use (if not Text::Unidecode)?

2021-04-04 Thread L A Walsh
III --- I.e. it stripped off all the accent marks. Is that what you want? (it spewed some warnings, but seemed to test out ok, so tried it). put your characters in a file "/tmp/in", (i.e. cat /tmp/in -- I know, not very creative, but then: cat /tmp/in| tperl use Text::

Re: 3270

2021-03-22 Thread Peter A. Castro
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 06:51:05PM +0100, Cygwin List wrote: > Hi, > > Do we have any c/s/x3270 maintainer? > Do we have any c/s/x3270 users except me? That would be me. I haven't had much time to try and package a new x3270. Also, the source package has changed form in such

Re: Different symlink resolution in native console vs. terminal

2021-03-16 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/03/10 14:51, Andrey Repin wrote: Running `pwd -P` or `readlink -e .` in a specific directory from native terminal provide unresolved answers. The directory $HOME/Documents/EVE is a symlink pointing to $HOME\Documents\Games\EVE. When running either command inside the directory from

Re: Would it be possible to update the bash package?

2021-03-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/03/03 16:40, Jack S wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 10:03 PM L A Walsh wrote: What features are you looking for in 5.0 that you need it? Bug fixes and security updates. Also I want to have version parity with my servers. I don't recall any security vulnerabil

Re: Would it be possible to update the bash package?

2021-02-28 Thread L A Walsh
nuary 2019 and 5.1 just came out in December 2020. Is there something you are missing in 5.0? I'm still at 4.3 and it seems to be working fine. What features are you looking for in 5.0 that you need it? you could just build + install it yourself too. It's not that hard of a p

Re: Cygwin doesn't handle SIGWINCH properly in Windows Terminal

2021-02-16 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/02/16 02:26, Thomas Wolff wrote: I have a similar trap in my .bashrc and it's being triggered when running bash from either cmd (conhost) or Windows Terminal and resizing them. Did I miss something in this issue? What do you mean by "reset LINES/COLUMNS"? I am n

Re: Cygwin doesn't handle SIGWINCH properly in Windows Terminal

2021-02-15 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/02/14 16:05, Takashi Yano wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:44:32 -0800 L A Walsh wrote: showsize () {\ declare s=$(stty size); s="(${s// /x})" ;\ printf "%s" "$s${s//?/$'\b'}"

Re: Cygwin doesn't handle SIGWINCH properly in Windows Terminal

2021-02-14 Thread L A Walsh
. This seems to be a bug of console code. I will submit a patch for this issue. --- I'd be careful 'fixing' this, as it seems to work the same way on linux / bash. I have this func setup on bash_profile & bashrc on both cygwin and linux: # display new size of te

Re: switching to any other than English keyboard layout is not handled correctly anymore on the prompt at minimum

2021-01-25 Thread L A Walsh
isn't producing UTF-8 encoding. You mention that it does work after you restart your terminal. Setting in locale don't take effect in the current terminal, but in future ones that you start. So it is a good idea to restart your terminal after you change locale. I assume the error you

Re: switching to any other than English keyboard layout is not handled correctly anymore on the prompt at minimum

2021-01-25 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/01/25 12:50, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: Wait a sec, what do you specifically mean with "... Cygwin just uses the POSIX standard..." -- POSIX standard for what and how does it interfere with getting the current layout and mapping from OS? --- Cygwin doesn't get

Re: switching to any other than English keyboard layout is not handled correctly anymore on the prompt at minimum

2021-01-25 Thread L A Walsh
quot; LC_ALL= but why would it matter in the scenario where the user switches the layout explicitly him-/herself? Because the OS (the keyboard driver) needs to know what mapping is used on the keyboard, so that when you press a key, the keyboard driver sends the keycode with th

Need admin privs before something can inherit them (was Re: ssh-host-config doesn't "inherit" user admin privilege)

2021-01-14 Thread L A Walsh
On 2021/01/14 17:21, art wrote: I get a security code 5 when ssh-host-config tries to install cygsshd. I was logged into Win 10 pro/x64 as an admin user. The "fix" was to start a Cygwin64 Terminal with Admin and then run ssh-host-config within this script. You say ssh-host-confi

Re: Workaround for cygwin's way of linking folders?

2020-12-06 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/12/06 14:41, Johnathan Schneider via Cygwin wrote: Hi all, I'm setting up a cross platform development environment using Cygwin. Upon attempting to use Cygwin's CMake that is natively bundled, I discovered that Cygwin goes looking for the gcc in /usr/bin/cc, If y

Re: Updated: fetchmail-6.4.14-1

2020-12-04 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/12/04 12:18, Achim Gratz wrote: L A Walsh writes: I see no reference to any python of any version. Yes, the package does depend on it, and as noted in the announcement it depends specifically on python36. So, people who configure fetchmail with the man page and

Re: Updated: fetchmail-6.4.14-1

2020-12-03 Thread L A Walsh
t the 6.4.12 version doesn't require python. When I look at the fetchmail website, https://www.fetchmail.info/, I see that it lists https://sourceforge.net/projects/fetchmail/ as a project page, but with sources on https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/ . I see no mention of py

Re: Please add /cygdrive/c/Windows/Sysnative to the default PATH

2020-11-23 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/17 15:41, tealhill via Cygwin wrote: ### Summary Why should Cygwin add Sysnative to $PATH? As a workaround for Microsoft's failure to add Sysnative to %PATH%. ### Full explanation Cygwin imports the Windows %PATH% variable at startup. It would be ideal if Microsoft woul

Re: surrounding double quotes not removed from native command line arguments when they contain unicode and locale is default

2020-11-15 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/12 08:10, Ilya Basin via Cygwin wrote: Hi. When I launch a Cygwin program from a native Windows program and an argument in the command line string is quoted and contains national characters then the Cygwin program behaves as if double quotes were part of the program argument. This

Re: Commercial use of cygwin

2020-11-13 Thread L A Walsh
, please trim your quotes. If you need to quote the original for context, only quote what is needed for context. In a threaded reader, your reply is placed under the original poster's email, where, if a reader is interested, it was just read. Duplicating the entire note isn't necessary no

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-08 Thread L A Walsh
and the application path. It is unlikely that the issue is that the target files are open as L A Welsh suggested because always either all symlinks or none at all remain. The number is always the same (with recent versions afair 258). Windows doesn't hold open all fonts -- but

Re: Strange paths in NTFS reparse points created by Cygwin Setup for e.g. TTF fonts

2020-11-05 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/11/05 13:41, Michael Soegtrop via Cygwin wrote: I wonder if the path "/mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/wingding.ttf" is something which should be written into a NTFS reparse point by cygwin setup. Probably not - it looks like a cygwin path and it is understandable that this con

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2020-11-04 Thread A GS via Cygwin
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Re: Conflict if same username local and in domain

2020-11-01 Thread L A Walsh
On 2020/10/31 03:56, David Balažic wrote: I don't have any of /user /users /User /Users folders on my setup. Do you mean C:\Users ? --- Sorry, yeah. Even if I symlink it, won't that just change the location, but not the used usernames? You have one user in the Domain a

Re: Conflict if same username local and in domain

2020-10-29 Thread L A Walsh
e, the 2nd login gets the domain or system name appended like /users/linda/local-account /users/linda.domain/domain account. Both of the user names have uniq windows UUID's and I have both in my /etc/passwd. The two directories SHARE many of the same files -- so both my logins are in a commo

bug in cygwin perl

2020-10-25 Thread L A Walsh
I'm using perl 5.26. The following perl-lib function fails. perl -e 'use charnames qw{:full};' Undefined subroutine utf8::SWASHNEW called at /usr/share/perl5/5.26/_charnames.p m line 176. Com

cygwin permissions on folders creating problems for windows applications (like explorer, gvim)

2020-09-08 Thread L A Walsh
ory. Can't start native Windows application from here. setsid: failed to execute gvim: Permission denied The files were owned by a domain account

Re: Bash 4.4.12-3 erroneous behavior using [[ -f name ]] and other utilities

2020-09-08 Thread L A Walsh
Please be clear enough that your own mother and father would clearly understand the problem. Also, is there a reason you submitted this to the cygwin list instead of the bug-b...@gnu.org list? On 9/7/2020 11:24 PM, johnb...@email.com wrote: -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/pro

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